Production date is week 8, 2008 so that makes this CPU a budget CPU. Consider that in 2008 it was not uncommon to buy a, let's say, Core 2 Duo E8400 which was released early 2008. The 5000+ was budget in 2008, not bad in 2007 and would've been high-end in 2006. The Athlon64 X2 was aging and falling ... > Read more